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Being  True  To  Our  Creator

Alan Hammond   July 11, 1986  World Service Class

“The Lord chose these hearts and minds to come

to the most privileged educational position and process available in the body of mankind,

in order that this restoration of consciousness in heaven on earth may be wrought,

because the angels indwelling these forms have a unique responsibility in the creative process

now outworking on earth.”

I thought to begin this hour I would read a page of a service given on May 4, 1986, entitled To Receive The King. Martin says, “I’m going to read a letter which I received this morning from one of your number, that we may move easily in the spirit of the creative process this morning from what occurred yesterday evening. Here is the Letter.”

I speak these words to you, and to my capacities, and to my world:

BLESSED IS HE THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! (You can ignore it, you can busy yourself with human activity, you can deny it... but here it is, like it or not.)

BLESSED IS THE FOCUS OF SPIRIT AS IT APPEARS ON EARTH! (Perhaps you would prefer it another way... maybe a more impressive display, some miracles, an occasional bolt of lightning. But you’ve seen plenty of real miracles already, every time you opened your heart to see them. And on the other hand, you’ve seen amazing displays of “miracles” in the form of technology, which later led only to death, destruction and disappointment. No. This is it... just exactly the way it is.)

BLESSED IS THE SIMPLE, CLEAR EXPRESSION OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH THROUGH HUMAN FORM! (You can distance yourself from it by judgment; you can feel superior by nit-picking, categorizing, comparing ... but what does it get you besides indigestion and loneliness? You are only distancing yourself from the creative process of life.)

BLESSED IS THE INNOCENT, UNCONDITIONED OFFERING OF LOVE RESPONSE TO THE FOCUS OF SPIRIT ON EARTH. (You can wait as long as you like for spirit to appear the way you want it to, the way you’ve visualized it... but here it is all the time. Meanwhile the life you’re wasting is not yours alone but everyone’s, because your hesitancy holds back others, just as surely as your yielding opens doors.)

BLESSED IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD REVEALED THIS DAY IN MAN RESTORED! NOW IS THE FULFILMENT OF THE LONGING OF EVERY HUMAN HEART, EXACTLY TO THE DEGREE OF THAT HEART’S YIELDING. BLESSED, BLESSED IS THE ONE SPIRIT APPEARING THROUGH ALL OF US: LET IT BE ACKNOWLEDGED AND REVEALED, AND LET THE FOCUS OF THAT SPIRIT BE ACCEPTED FOR WHAT IT IS!

That phrase, “Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord”—I think is usually interpreted, “I agree, and praise that one who comes in the name of the Lord.” And, as has been suggested in this text that I read, it is not only a commendable attitude but absolutely necessary for other hearts and minds to begin to find attunement with the creative process of life. But in my experience I have another interpretation which I’d like to share: “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord” is one’s own experience. As one comes in the name of the Lord, one is blessed.

All human beings are blessed, only they apparently are not fully aware of it. But as one comes increasingly in the name of the Lord, one awakens to the bounteous blessings of heaven—that's the natural experience. I’ve often wondered why Emissaries are so reluctant to help other people in awakening consciously. Obviously one of the main reasons is that the so-called Emissaries aren't awakened adequately themselves to know that they are dwelling in heaven, fully blessed—and this glorious experience of Being is not therefore overflowing into their world. This is a bit of a hard saying, even though I say it very gently! It's something to meditate on if this glory isn’t one's experience.

He that cometh in the name of the Lord is blessed. It's almost embarrassing in the world the way it is, how full the blessings are that are poured through the experience of the one who comes in the name of the Lord. One's almost hesitates, in the context of miserable consciousness all around, to proclaim the joys of heaven, because the human ego present that is in purgatory or hell, objects, and can see all sorts of external reasons why you may be experiencing heaven. But the only reason one is, if it’s the genuine article, is because one is identified in the creative process itself. It is not that man restored is able to manipulate external circumstances—having dominion—so that things line up now the way I want them, and I’ve learned the spiritual techniques to do it. No. It is because identity is come into the One Spirit which is animating everything everywhere. It is the spirit which is the Creator—the animating spirit, force, energy, which is moving all things everywhere. That’s how vast it is—Life, the Creator. As identity comes into that, naturally one’s fulfilment is simply in creating an experience consonant with the character of Being, utilizing whatever the raw materials are in one’s consciousness—be it physical substance, mental substance, emotional substance, vibrational substance. The angel, the focus of the One Spirit, is fulfiled because it is being true to its own nature as the Creator, creating the experience of heaven out of whatever raw materials are around at all these levels of being. We don't need any particular circumstance at all, to know that we are absolutely blessed, because the absolute experience of Being is derived from being oneself.

Many would-be Emissaries never come into this state of experience. The identity tends to remain in the human heart or mind and in that false identity there is nit-picking, as it was put in this text—all sorts of things criticized. But I want to just focus a moment on a delusion which we’ve all heard, and maybe touched ourselves. When they see those moving in the Emissary program, and therefore in the creative process of resurrection of consciousness provided, they view EDL as another church or a spiritual group that they belong to. Now that is a delusion, but you can see that it is a common one. People hit a ceiling—it might be a very low ceiling actually, but they hit ceilings anyway in this human nature ego, false identity. They're just a human being, and they think they belong to this group with a slightly superior set of concepts, and so on. And they may be associated for many years with this process, classes, services, groups, and yet they still find a more or less average, mediocre state of experience. And after many years of this, many such people become dissatisfied and begin to distance one way or another from EDL, as I say, viewing it as another little church. And most people, it is true, just go to church on Sundays—maybe once in the week. But anyway, after years of this they wonder why they don’t come into this glorious, absolutely fulfilled experience, and then they view this form, and say “Well it’s the inadequacies there.” It isn’t the inadequacies there. It is because, actually, such people never moved through the various ceilings, coming into a subjective experience of true identity.

Earlier this morning you were considering essences. Now this is a very thrilling subject, and each individual is incarnate on earth to achieve many things in the unfolding design. We have heard that responsibility for coming into true identity is a personal responsibility. I'd like to focus on a similarly singular responsibility which each of us has, and that is to fulfil in manifestation the particular essences which are ours and which we bring as Beings into the earth—because as angels we focus in a unique way some aspect of the One Spirit. Now all the essences are present in us, the full range of spirit is present within us, but obviously there are certain dominances of Being in each of us. And we somehow inherently know that there are certain areas of life expression on this planet for which we have particular responsibility. We sense it, and something may have taken some little form relative to those essences of Being. But I’m sure each of us sense there is much more to be done before we leave this sphere of things. We would love to achieve those unique purposes for which we each came, and that’s an individual responsibility. Nobody else can actually do this because you are you. And I would say that it is important to give this a little meditation—and this isn't self-centered if it is approached from the right level. Many associated with the program, they want to “do their thing,” and they can never be fulfiled unless they go on the stage, or whatever is—you’ve heard these people. Well it is true, there are dominances.

There's two aspects of dominance, I suppose. There’s the spiritual Being which is a unique focus of spirit, and then there's the earthly capacities into which you incarnated, which have certain characteristics and abilities dominant in them. Now you see, the human nature muddle is because the desire to manifest the essences and fulfil one’s reason for incarnation is a self-centered thing. From the angelic standpoint we begin to come at it the right way, and the right way is that I don't have to do anything for my fulfilment. The angel after all, is eternal. Let me give you an example. If I speak about myself it’s not because I want to speak about myself. It’s the universal Me that I'm speaking about—which is the truth. But anyway, I have a full range of essences of Being within myself and as I incarnate, circumstances are thus and so. The design, the external design into which I am born are thus and so, and immediately those external circumstances begin to determine various things about talents developed. For example, I know there's a musical essence within myself. If I had the time and the education I’m sure I could be a great violinist or pianist. I know it within myself—the essences are there. It’s just, unfortunately, I can’t play a note because I had neither the musical education nor the time. Now, am I a neurotic wreck, being aware of that? No! I have no physical children. I would modestly suggest, I’m capable! However, for one reason and another, in the unfolding of the design that hasn’t been the case. Am I a neurotic mess? Of course not!

The angel, the eternal focus of spirit, has all the essences—but, in one incarnation anyway, you couldn't possibly make manifest all of one’s talents from the spiritual standpoint. There's no need to in Divine identity! As we come into true identity and therefore awaken to a larger purpose, we begin to utilize the raw materials of Life, circumstances, that are presented to us, at hand externally. When Life, the power of Life is growing a plant, it just does the very best it can with the raw materials available for the growing of that plant. It may be very good soil, it may be very poor soil, the rainfall may be poor, it may be good, but Life doesn't pack up and say, “To hell with this project; I’m not going to bother to try.” Of course not! Life is naturally the Creator itself, and does the very best job with what is available, and Life itself is fulfilled even though the form that is produced may be quite modest. In essence, in spiritual essences, Life is fulfiled. Under other circumstances it could have created a great forest, and does in other circumstances. And so it is with us. As we emerge on earth, we no longer have to scurry hither and yon trying to find the ideal circumstance so that we can manifest one minute area of the essences of my Being. Because as I am where I am, and I am expressing my Being, which is the Creator, I play my part in the whole and whatever the whole brings to me to be worked upon I work upon, and I find those ranges of my Being, those ranges of my essences are exercised and are fulfiled. And actually, without going into the whole subject now, in fact, one will find that in the course of life a great range of the spiritual essences are exercised, even though one may not create great external forms in any particular aspect of one’s living.

So the key to fulfiling of the essence of one’s Being is simply to be the Creator in the context of the larger creative process—the whole. And I have also discovered personally that there are certain dominant spiritual essences of oneself that in the context of the whole do come round to require particular development and creative activity in the earth. So one can see that coming into true identity as the Creator is the key to fulfilment of one's part in the creative process.

A corollary of what I’ve just been saying is that in the collective as we now know it, certain people focalize certain areas of activity within the body. And many think to themselves, “Well I work in business; now this is a modest kind of performance that I give in the field of business.” But perhaps then theorizing in their heads, “I’m in the spiritual body; perhaps I focalize business for the body of mankind.” Now not many Emissaries are even willing to countenance such a stature, but in a flight of fancy someone may! So they console themselves with meaning and purpose by—they have a little business or something and inside their head they inflate it. “I’m extending something into the world of business; this is my focus.” What a pathetically tiny, little focus for an aspect of the spirit of God—an angel!

An angel is an angel is an angel. God is God is God. As angels with the full range of essences within ourselves for every aspect of human activity, we are responsible for focalizing every aspect of life through human form, as an individual. That means providing spiritual focus, providing spiritual leadership in the body of mankind—at least it’s leadership now because virtually everybody else is asleep. In the restored state it would change, because there would be more specific points of leadership, but even then, one would be a focus for God—Life’s activity in whatever you were doing.

But coming back to where we are right now, take for example the field of relationships. Each of us should be a Divine focus of leadership for the conduct of relationships through human form in the body of mankind. Now you may say within yourself, “Well this is awful, because I don’t even have a girlfriend, let alone focusing for the world.” You see, that is getting into the realm of form; that’s judging the form. It is spiritual focus and spiritual leadership. It is not at all impossible for each of us to conduct our relationships with men or women in the Tone of true spirit. Nothing impossible about that. If we do that, we are providing spiritual leadership in the field of relationships. That’s not saying how developed the form may be. We are saying that if you express this quality of character, this quality of spirit in your relationships, you will be in heaven. Never mind the extent of the form.

And that goes for money. As angels we are here to provide leadership in financial matters for all the governments of the world, for all the tycoons who are crookedly trying to grab as much as they can, etc., etc. It doesn't matter how much money we have because it is working with spiritual essences. As I, in my dealings with money or material objects, do so in the current of Divine character, I am providing leadership in this field. And so it is with every aspect of our living. It's not good enough to just be a world focus for business, or a world focus for relationships, or a world focus for communication, or education, singularly, or a couple of them. If we're present in a situation and participating in some area of activity, I am the manifest focus of clarity of spirit in this field.

Now the essence of every area is actually the truth of Love. For example, the essence of the field of relationships—what is the essence that we're dealing with? It's the truth of Love. One extends the truth of Love to whoever it is, the truth of Love in expression does provide the focus of leadership for that activity. So that, to each person, not just the ones we fancy, but to each person we express the truth of Love, thereby providing a focus for the whole body of mankind in relationships.

In the world of communications, the essence of the world of communications is the truth of Love. In communications, the essence of it is to share true communion in the Tone, to share the truth of Love with another person—to communicate that is to provide leadership.

In education, the essence of education is the loving of the potential of that person, and as one extends that essence, one is a leader in true education—the Divine potential, drawing it forth.

And the last example—business. The essence of the world of business is loving to provide perfect service. It’s an expression of the truth of Love. It’s providing a service to the whole. That’s what business should be—providing a commodity or a service for the whole, which is needed by the whole, and in expressing and effectively delivering that need of the whole, that is the essence of business actually.

So you can see that all these fields—and we could rehearse many more fields of human activity—they all relate actually to the expression of the truth of Love, the essences of one’s own Being. As we express these essences of our own Being, which are the truth of Love, we naturally find ourselves in positions of leadership in the body of mankind. The body of mankind may not immediately acknowledge it but we know, because identified in spirit we know that no one can experience heaven without coming through us—this spirit, not us personally in an ego way. “No man cometh unto the father”, no man cometh into the experience of heaven, no man cometh into the experience of fulfilment, or eternal identity, except through this Tone. We know this. One doesn't have to shout it actually, although it’s fun to do it now and then!

But it’s absolute. The authority is not something that I or anyone else has to kind of project through—“Do this or else!” No, because the One Spirit that is animating this dust—this One Spirit is also animating dust everywhere. Every molecule everywhere is animated by this One Spirit. There never has been a problem. Human egos think they have a big job on their hands. No! Not at all! It is a refined artistic challenge to focus the Tone through this instrument. Individually speaking we have to do that, but that’s a refined artistic and creative challenge utilizing many levels of substance and many qualities of radiation. That focus is our immediate responsibility in the creative process, and as we do that we are moving in concert with the One Power that’s doing absolutely everything. So there is no sweat involved in this at all—or worry. The authority is not the authority of one little instrument. It's merely articulated—this One Power everywhere is simply articulated at one point in one place to achieve some purpose within the design of things.

So it is a privilege to be in the Emissary educational, recreative process in which all of our hearts and minds are engaged. It’s a wonderful provision within the body of mankind. Many people dream of the greater works, the greater experiences in heaven. They are sensed. Many of those would-be Emissaries that I mentioned earlier, who join for awhile and then flake off, they sense something tremendous within themselves. They sense the heaven, the essences within themselves, and because they don’t stay and yield more and more into the creative process which has been provided, they of course become frustrated and then they hit a plateau. Maybe they don’t even flake off; maybe they just hang around belly-aching in the group, kind of mumbling; keep making their own problems, shunting around with all of this, fiddle about with that, hearing about the experience of heaven, and the fulness and the joys, and the variety and the adventure, and the excitement of it, and then they trudge off back to their duplex and “do the best they can.” Anyway, the point being that all this potential is sensed, but it doesn’t fully manifest.

So it is really with us—each one of us in this process. It’s a personal responsibility. I have to deliver the goods myself. I was speaking with John Gray, and Chris Jorgensen, and Jean Hammond yesterday about Assembly experience, and without going into too much detail—Assemblies are provided for those in the Emissary program to come together after finishing all the classes available and to move in the current of the spirit; to let spirit create the forms and the release in the moment together, the collective release of spirit. And one of the difficulties we've had is—you can see by what I’ve outlined that there is potential there if it could be done—unfortunately, many who have been around for years haven’t done their homework and are in no shape whatsoever to do very much. If we subjectively mean business, we do our homework! Very few in the spiritual body, as yet, really do their homework. So many of areas are private property. The person is responsible for their world—but it is tied in to the whole. You can see what I'm getting at here. People don’t do their homework! They hear all the theory, go home, try and grab their personal heaven, manufacture it for themselves, fail—always fail, and then have this mediocre pathetic excuse for a life. It’s even more frustrating because they've heard of something more glorious!

So the blessings—this isn't a bribe but it sounds like one, and I’m about to utter it. One cannot know the blessings unless one comes in the name of the Lord. As one comes more and more in the name of the Lord, the experience moves deeper into the kingdom. I’ve said this before, but you know, the object is to get into heaven. People are in purgatory or hell, and their goal is to learn the truths and all that so they can get into heaven. That’s what the whole body of mankind is trying to do, one way or another—get into heaven. But as we in fact move in the recreative process, and identity begins to change, and identity comes into spirit, you find you are in heaven because you’re the Creator in action. You are in heaven, and the challenge is not to get into the heaven but to get into the earth. That's the real challenge. That’s when Life really begins—coming out of heaven into the earth! There’s the creative challenge then.

And we find ourselves, as it were, deeper and deeper in heaven. We're coming from a deeper and deeper place in heaven. At first it's just kind of like, you pop in on Sundays and then out again on Mondays—that kind of thing on the borders of the kingdom. As we take up residence we find ourselves in the kingdom, and in essence we stay there—but in radiation we come out. And it's the coming out increasingly which brings to heart and mind the new instruments, the greater instruments of radiation, which are necessary for the release of greater currents of power for which one is responsible. And so the adventure continues. There’s constant awakening, not only to the new experiences in the kingdom; primarily one with another; not only do we begin to have new experiences in the kingdom itself, angel to angel—but outer heart and mind become increasingly aware of the mechanisms of radiation which are the angel’s personal responsibility. And that's exciting to heart and mind too.

So it is wonderful to be in Class. It is wonderful to be in this part of the body of mankind, where the Lord has brought you. The Lord chose you. You didn't really choose the Lord, heart and mind. The Lord chose these hearts and minds to come to the most privileged educational position and process available in the body of mankind, in order that this restoration of consciousness in heaven on earth may be wrought, because the angels indwelling these forms have a unique responsibility in the creative process now outworking on earth. Simple. Having come so far, in a semi-conscious way, why not really have the joy now! Having come through the wilderness and the bogs and the blizzards and the deserts of experience, why not do what little homework is now required—there might be a lot—but do what little comes to mind to be done in order that the Lord may pour you out a blessing. And that is a pun, isn't it? Heart and mind experience the blessing, but YOU are poured out a blessing into the earth.

So this hour that we've shared is a mere point in the ongoing creative cycle in which we individually and collectively are participating—in the midst of eternity, here we are at this point, poised to experience heaven, the glory of Being, and to let that expand. What a joyful place to be—and in this place we thank the Lord, the King, for the glory of Being in human form.

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